NEBRASKAland Magazine's • A YEAR OUTDOORS
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Organize the spring's first fish fry
with family and friends, who will
all suggest that more fishing trips
are in order after tasting pan-friend
fillets.
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Look for Free Park Entry and
Fishing Day.
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Take note – it's piping plover
nesting season, and during this
time portions of the beach at Lake
McConaughy will be closed to keep
the area safe for this endangered
species.
Late May
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Catch bluegill on spawning beds
with a flyrod and popping bug.
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Bowfish for carp in various
waters, including rivers, ponds and
lakes/reservoirs across Nebraska.
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Experience history at Ashfall
Fossil Beds.
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Visit a Nebraska state park as
the summer season kicks off on
Memorial Day weekend.
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Visit a bird-banding station,
including Wildcat Hills SRA and
Chadron SP, in coordination
with the Bird Conservancy of the
Rockies. Visit Birdconservancy.org
for more information.
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Grab your binoculars, as more
than 90 percent of the world's buff-
breasted sandpiper population are
staging in the eastern portion of
the Rainwater Basin. During their
peak migration, this shorebird
and others, including Hudsonian
godwits, greater yellowlegs and
Wilson's phalaropes, visit wetlands
and the shorelines of rivers,
streams and ponds throughout the
state.
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Fish flooded timber that rings
western reservoirs. Irrigation
reservoirs are usually full this time
of year, recharging after irrigation
drawdown from the previous
summer.
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Visit Niobrara State Park for
buffalo cookouts, Humanities
Nebraska programs and National
Park Service programs.
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Drive carefully!
Deer herds are
dispersing.
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Watch for turtles crossing roads
as females migrate to lay eggs.
